- Aurora Monster Models – turning every boy’s dream into a nightmare!
- Johnny Eck – the famous Half-Boy from Freaks
- Lon Chaney Jr
- Maria Ouspenskaya, the Russian actress who became The Wolf Man’s iconic Gypsy Woman
- Creature from the Black Lagoon (Universal 1954)
- Werewolf of London (Universal 1935)
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- Mark of the Vampire (MGM 1935)
- Brides of Dracula, The (Hammer 1960)
- This Island Earth (Universal 1955)
Born on the 18th of September, 1922, Anthony Frank Hinds was the son of Hammer founder William Hinds. After serving as a pilot in […]
Ah, the joys of seeing double! The House of Hammer is back again with Twins of Evil, a dark and moody horror film that […]
In John Gilling’s atmospheric 1966 thriller The Reptile, a small village in Cornwall is suffering from an outbreak of mysterious deaths that are simply […]
Without the fearful presences of Peter Cushing or Christopher Lee, Hammer tried once again to make a vampire film, but without the count and […]
Hammer studios turned to Greek mythology to find the source for The Gorgon. In the small German village of Vandorf, authorities are puzzled by […]
Christopher Lee – or, to afford him his proper title, Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ – was born on the 27th May, […]
Friday the 13th, the film many consider the first of the ‘slasher’ movies, was released on the 9th of May, 1980. Directed by Sean […]
